Big Book of Knitting
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806962038 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Weave or embroider one of many popular designs onto the fabric. Finish off with charming touches like pompons, piping, fringes, and tassels. From needles to fabrics, all the essential techniques appear, along with a variety of stitches and weaves--not only the basics, but intricate double-face, jacquard, and intarsia. A marvelous, oversized, every-page-in-full-color celebration of knitting! Beginners will find everything they need to make their first knitting projects, and experienced knitters will love the sensuous photos of the creative process and the finished projects. The projects, all accompanied by charts and patterns, are
Garments illustrating techniques covered in the book and a section of stitch patterns round out the content of this excellent knitting reference that should find a place on the shelves of all public library knitting collections. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Originally published in Germany in 1996, this is a lavishly illustrated knitting reference particularly strong in its coverage of both basic techniques like increasing and decreasing and more advanced techniques like knitting cables without a cable needle, working with charts, and placing sleeve increases in openwork patterns.
Kindle Customer said A must for knitters, from beginners to professionals!. If you own this book, you'll probably never have to seek counsel at a yarn shop again. Clear, pictorial, step-by-step directions for all the shaping, finishing, fixing, patterning, edging, facing, hemming, embellishing, casting on/off, increasing, decreasing techniques one could ever want are pr. "Excellent for any knitter" according to Elizabeth M. I followed the recommendations of other Amazon buyers in chosing this book as I was only looking for some professional finishing tips. This book covers everything from the very basics to the very advanced with big, easy-to-follow color photos. This book will definitely keep me busy over the appr. Beautiful Book but Bad Translation Deborah Jean A friend recommended this book to me but after obtaining a copy I sold it. I am sure that Ms. Buss knows her stuff but obviously she had a poor translator (or at least I hope that is what it is). The pictures are beautiful but the instructions are very difficult if not impossible to follow. I ha